Improvement in cooking-stoves



M. MEAD. Cook Stove.

Patenied Oct. 1, 1867;-

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Letfers'Pafent No. 69,355, dated October 1, 1867.

' IMPROVEMENT IN GOOKING-STOVES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, MATTHIAS MEAD, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful improvements in Cook-Stoves and Furnace Combined; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in the arrangement and construction of a cooking-stove and furnace combined, providing the saine with a suitable pipe to convey foreign air directly around the fire through a hollow lining, thence down into a vacuum or flue through ducts into the oven.

It also. relates to the carrying off of this heated foreign air, through discharge pipes, into any room or rooms, as required, or in letting it escape into a flue leading directly into the smoke pipe.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, Iwill proceed to describe its construction and operation. I

Figure l represents a longitudinal section of my improved cook-stove and furnace combined.

Figure 2 represents a side elevation of the same.

Figure 3 represents a vertical section.

a represents a section of the floor; 6, the supply pipe; 0, the hollow lining; d, the continuous chamber; 6, the vacuum orfiue; f, the ducts; gg, the discharge pipes; h, the waste-flue; z, the smoke pipe, and j the fire-box.

The object of this invention is twofold; first, the contents in the oven, Whatever it may be, is cooked 'or baked with pure foreign air, and also the heat in the oven being so equalized, two or more courses of pics or cakes, Sta, can be cooked or baked at the same time without changing their position, in addition to the heat in the oven being radiated from the fire inthe stove, as in the common way; second, this heated foreign air, when not required for cooking purposes, can be conveyed at will through pipes where required. This same improvement can also be applied to what is termed a cooking-range.

By foreign air I mean air taken from any place, either from outside of the building or from any room or rooms in the house where the air is not impure. I accomplish this as follows: The fire-box j being charged with Wood or coal, and lighted, the foreign air is taken, outside of the room, from any pure source and conveyed or dr aughted into the supply pipe 6, which passes through the floor a, thence up and through the holes 7t n,

i into the continuous chamber d, which is formed by the hollow lining; thence down through the holes or ducts 0 0 into the vacuum or flue c, passing into the ovenm. Through the ductsff, from the oven m, it passes through the waste-flue h, which leads directly into the smoke pipe 2'. When this heated air is not required for cooking purposes, the waste'flue h is closed, and the heated foreign air passes through the conducting pipes g g, which convey it to other apartments or rooms, as may be required. Thus it will be seen, by combining the furnace with the cook-stove, pure foreign air is obtained and heated to any degree required, and conveyed to any apartment needed, and with the same stove pure air is obtained and applied for cooking purposes, combining in its operation economy, comfort, and health. v

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv The arrangement of the ductsff for conveying heated air through the bottom of the oven and distributing it through the discharge pipes gg, substantially for the purpose described and set forth.

MATTHIAS MEAD.

Witnesses:

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